Peter J. Thuesen

Historian of U.S. religion @IUIndianapolis | Ph.D. @Princeton | Writing about liberal Catholicism & Cardinal Cushing of Boston | See website for previous books

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The new Indiana State Archives (left) and the dome of the Indiana Statehouse. I’m at the @IndianaHistory next door to attend a community conversation on Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, our common text in our pilot Cornerstone “Big Questions” courses at @IUIndianapolis!

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Heard an outstanding @spiritandplace performance last night by violinist Colette Abel & friends of the five Glorious Mystery sonatas of the Rosary Sonatas of Heinrich Biber (1644-1704). The Episcopal Church of All Saints (a liberal Anglo Catholic parish) was the perfect setting.

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@joshshepperd Beautiful!!

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@sarahmccammon Very true

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"It is the highest achievement of democratic societies that they embody the principle of resistance to government within the principle of government itself."

—Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man (1943)

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@thescottbarber Thank you for your prayers. We need them!

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@ulrichlehner Get well soon!

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Yes! People crave positivity. This ad is a breath of fresh air.

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As a young political reporter, I covered Sen. Birch Bayh's last race. One of the greatest campaigners I've ever seen.
This retro ad for bus grandson, Beau, who is running for Sec State in Indiana, is really fun.

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@smbahr14 @LAPressClub Congratulations on being a finalist!

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Voted this afternoon at the City-County Building (city hall) in downtown Indianapolis. Thanks to all the poll workers across the country who make our free and fair elections possible.

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Bust of Richard Cardinal Cushing (1895-1970), the archbishop of Boston and subject of my latest book project, in Cardinal Cushing Memorial Park in downtown Boston.

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The Massachusetts State House in Boston earlier this afternoon.

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At the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston doing research on the Kennedy connection (particularly Jackie Kennedy) for my book on Cardinal Cushing of Boston. @JFKLibraryFdn @IUIndianapolis

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Arrived from Indianapolis in Boston today to do research at the JFK Library and discovered this historic banner in the public exhibit! @JFKLibraryFdn

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Agree 100% with this. And since SCOTUS won’t do it, we need to vote in a Congress that will.

End Gerrymandering https://t.co/qqnLUiHNzg via @NYTOpinion

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Old East, the nation’s oldest state university building, at my undergraduate alma mater, @UNC Chapel Hill.

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@ReallyOldLife @UNC Visiting my mother & sister!

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Back at my undergraduate alma mater, @UNC Chapel Hill. The Playmakers Theatre, built in 1850.

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Grateful for this coverage by @clairerafford of the Cornerstone courses we're piloting here at @IUIndianapolis this year. With support from the Teagle Foundation, we're putting liberal arts questions—and big ideas—back into the core of the curriculum!

https://t.co/ipAvKF7fQe

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Indiana’s Saint

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St. Théodore Guérin's first American school, St. Mary-of-the-Woods Academy, opened its doors to young women in 1841 & by the end of the 19th c. it was awarding college degrees. Guérin also directed the establishment of numerous parish schools & academies, & also founded orphanages & pharmacies with her fellow Sisters of Providence of Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods.